Standing down: who are the MPs calling time before the next UK election?

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Ninety MPs, including 14 former secretaries of state, have said they will not be standing for re-election in 2024

So far 90 of the 650 currently sitting MPs have announced they won’t be seeking re-election – the highest number of departing MPs since 2010, with more retirements expected.

Of those, 14 are former secretaries of state – 11 of them Tory – and nine are select committee chairs. The exodus is greater on the Tory benches, which are on track for their biggest wave of departures since the 1997 Labour landslide. We look at the most prominent figures set to leave parliament.

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